Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Seein's believin', but feelin's the naked truth. Sc. Pr.

Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. Bible.

Seek, and ye shall find. Jesus.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, / ... Fools to flatter, and raiment fine, / ... And nothing of God shall e'er be thine. Dr. W. Smith.

Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge 45 the fatherless, plead for the widow. Bible.

Seek not thyself without thyself to find. Dryden.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd; / Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd; / Too busy man would find his sorrows more, / If future fortunes he should know before; / For by that knowledge of his destiny / He would not live at all, but always die. Dryden.

Seek not to reform every one's dial by your own watch. Pr.

Seek one good, one end, so zealously, that nothing else may come into competition or partnership with it. Thomas à Kempis.

Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility or softness, which taketh an honest mind prisoner. Bacon.